Private Alfred Turner, 4th NC Infantry (c. 1861)
28 March 2022
A fine full-length photograph of Alfred Turner, 4th North Carolina Infantry as published by Greg Mast in his State Troops and Vounteers: A Photographic Record of North Carolina’s Civil War Soldiers.
Turner was captured at Boonsboro, MD on 15 September 1862, the day after the Regiment fought in the defense at Fox’s Gap on South Mountain. He was exchanged in November 1862, but never returned to his regiment.
Leopold Blumenberg (c. 1866)
27 March 2022
This imposing item is a plaster bust of Leopold Blumenberg, brevet Brigadier General of Volunteers and late Major, 5th Maryland Infantry. Painted to look like marble, it’s in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Baltimore.
Blumenberg commanded the 5th Maryland at Antietam and was seriously wounded near the Sunken Road/Bloody lane there on 17 September 1862.
Casualty sheet: F. Abbis, 5th Maryland Infantry (1862)
27 March 2022
From his Compiled Service Record folder, here’s the casualty sheet for Private Ferdinand Abbis of Company C, 5th Maryland Infantry, wounded at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
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